Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1228
Cao Yong was not in the mood for Chinese New Year because he was worried about Li Shi.

Now, he just wanted to wait for the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to meet the rich salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. After finishing his work in the household department, he returned to Beijing.

As for the "suppression of bandits" in the south of the Yangtze River, Cao Yong is not worried.

Under the influence of more than 1000 years of Confucian culture, the common people have a deep-rooted fear of those in power.

Even if they claimed to be the orthodox Han people and regarded the Manchu and Qing courts as aliens, they did not dare to fight easily.

No one dares to rebel until natural disasters and man-made disasters come to an end.

Li Wei has returned to Hangzhou, and when the New Year's Eve comes, even if nothing happens in the yamen, favors in the official circle are unavoidable.

Regarding Wan Fu's kidnapping of the children of Jiangning officials and gentry, Li Wei was extremely tough.

Wan Fu sent a message, only saying that life was exchanged for life, while Li Wei used the other way to repay the other party, and replied to the officials and gentry: "Three for one, ridiculous! It's too worthless, ten for one That's good. Don't worry, if those thieves dare to make fun of your young master's safety, there are still more than a hundred bandits in the prison in the north of the city, and they will definitely not let you suffer wronged in vain."

Everyone was dumbfounded. If the kidnapped nephew was killed, even if ten mud legs were killed, so what?

Even if he was not angry, Li Weiren had already left Jiangning, so he had nowhere to reason.

Li Wei can be so relaxed because most of these gentry are not innocent.They either have their children working in the yamen, or they infiltrate the government yamen through various means, take up lawsuits, and interfere in local government affairs.

Although they are not thieves and bandits, few of them are good things.

It's about Wei Wenying, but Cao Yong can't relax.With Li Wei's move, although Wan Fu would not be able to kill all these gentry children, if he didn't feel angry and killed chickens to scare monkeys, it would be unlucky not to keep all the children.

How can Cao Yong allow Wei Wenying to experience this risk?

He sent someone to find Wei Ren, and handed him the 5000 taels of silver notes: "Master Li represents the imperial court to suppress the bandits, how could he be held hostage by the bandits? No matter what the others are, on Wenying's side, I still need you, an uncle, to help me out. "

How could Wei Ren collect it? He sent it out with the hot potato, and hurriedly waved his hands and said: "Xiaomin has money there, and the money is ready, and someone has already given a message to redeem him. Please rest assured, my lord."

When Cao Yong heard the words, he couldn't help being taken aback.

He remembered clearly before that the reason why Wei Ren mentioned that it was inconvenient to redeem people was because he was afraid of wearing the hat of "bandit" and bringing disaster to the family.

Cao Yong has already finished the draft, how can he promise to make Wei Ren feel at ease.

With Li Wei and Cao Song in Jiangnan, it is more than enough to protect a Wei family.If only he would believe it.

Unexpectedly, Wei Ren had already decided to redeem him first.

So courageous, it touches to make Cao Yong look sideways.

Wei Ren seemed to see Cao Yong's doubts, and said with a wry smile, "What else can I do, Wenying is the only one left in Jiangning with my fifth younger brother, if I can't protect him, I will go underground and have no face to see my fifth brother... "Speaking of the last, is red eyes.

Seeing the despair on his face, Cao Yong felt something was wrong and said, "Could it be that you plan to redeem Wenying alone?"

Along with Wenying, Wei Ren's third and youngest sons were also kidnapped.

Wei Ren's face turned pale, he nodded, and said with trembling lips: "With Master Li's words, they will most likely be safe."

No matter how reluctant he is, he can't take his family to take risks.

Cao Yong sighed secretly in his heart, and his dislike for Wei Ren decreased a bit.

The reason why he was anxious to redeem Wenying was probably because he thought of something with Cao Yong, fearing that Wanfu would vent his anger and kill someone after listening to Li Wei's words.

It is really not easy to redeem and save the nephew, so that the real son is in danger.

"If you can get through the phone, you can redeem them all. You don't need to bother so much. With Master Li's threat, to Wanfu and others, these gentry children may be hot potatoes. If you go to redeem them, it will just happen to give them to you." They go down the steps. Master Li, I'll be your guarantor." Cao Yong thought for a while and said.

Wei Ren couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly got up to thank him.

When Wei Ren was sent away, Cao Yong took the bank note. He was really curious about that "Wanfu".

that ring...

At this moment, I saw Cao Song coming in, wearing the clothes he went out.

"Brother, even if you don't go out to drink, you don't have to stay in the house all the time. Let's go, let's go out for a stroll." Cao Song said with a bit of joy: "If you don't go to the other places, you have to go to Zhizao Mansion Take a look."

"Weaving Mansion..." Cao Yong raised his eyebrows, but he was really tempted: "I said hello, it's not good to come directly to the door."

He had long wanted to go back and wander around, and Cao Song's proposal was exactly on her mind.

Since the Cao family left Jiangnan, Jiangning Weaving has changed three.The first one is an old man from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who succeeded Yongzheng to the throne; the second one is a servant of Nian Gengyao, who followed Nian Gengyao to question him after his downfall; the third one is the current weaving Gaoban, who took office less than a year ago.

Although the Gao family is also a family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they don't have much friendship with the Cao family.

"I've thought about this for a long time, and sent the post three days in advance, don't worry, big brother." Cao Song returned loudly.

Cao Yong also wanted to go back and take a look, so he changed into a cloak and went out with Cao Song.

Because of accepting the post, Gao Ban has already prepared for the visit of the Cao family brothers.

He is about forty years old, not tall, with deep forehead lines on his forehead, he looks a little unhappy.

Before coming to Jiangning, he was working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Really want to say, Cao Yong has also done his immediate boss.

Because of this relationship, Gao Ban is also very respectful to Brother Cao Yong.

But it's not difficult to accompany him to look at the old house, and Gao Ban handled it very gracefully.

Over the past ten years, Zhizao Mansion has changed a lot.

The inside is the same as the outside, without the magnificence of the past, and the houses and yards are dilapidated.Among them, the old lady's yard was the most dilapidated.

This place was built according to the regulations of a first-rank official residence. Even though the imperial plaque was already carried by the Cao family, the three weavers were not qualified to house female relatives here.

The upper room was empty, the corners of the yard were piled up with debris, and the pools in the yard were all dry.

Standing in this courtyard, Cao Song thought of the initial fear and the kindness of the old lady, and couldn't tell what he felt.

Gao Ban was a little embarrassed, although the dilapidation of the yard had little to do with him, but he still felt ashamed.

It would have been nice if someone had cleaned it up earlier. After all, this is the place where three generations of the Cao family lived. If their brothers were angry because of this, wouldn't I be wronged?

The Cao family brothers are not petty people, especially Cao Yong, who is still unwilling to trouble others.

He saw traces of recent cleaning in the yard, and he was very grateful.

Leaving the courtyard where the old lady was alive, Gao Ban took the two Cao family brothers to the East Garden.

The weather in Jiangning is warm. Although it is the twelfth lunar month of winter, the garden is still dotted with a lot of greenery.

Cao Yong's line of sight naturally pays special attention to the stone of the holy grandfather's imperial pen.

The stone stands firmly, look at that posture, even if it is windy and rainy, it cannot be knocked down.

Cao Yong's eyes narrowed, should this thing be dug out, and what to do with it.

Seeing Cao Yong pay homage to the late emperor's imperial brush "with all his heart and soul", Gao Ban struggled a little in his heart.

He was really afraid that Cao Yong would take a fancy to this stone and ask him for it.

It is wrong to give or not to give.

This stone is a treasure left by the holy ancestor during his southern tour. If the Cao family seized the time to give it to the Cao family, it seems reasonable.

Cao Song was beside him, but he was eager to try.It's just a stone less than three feet away, and it doesn't seem to have much weight. I really want to lift it up to shake its weight.

At this moment, Cao Yong had already taken a few steps quickly, heading towards the two magnolia flowers not far in front.

Goku breathed a sigh of relief.

After the Cao brothers came out of the garden, they went back to the General Military Mansion...

Cao Yong didn't speak, Cao Song thought he was sad about returning to his former residence, and persuaded him: "It's just an empty house, what is there to think about? If it feels good, we will build a manufacturing mansion in the capital."

Cao Song's words are full of ambitions.

Cao Yong could not help but smile.

General Military Mansion, guest room in the front yard.

Wei Hei's face was gloomy, and he looked at Cao Jia with a somewhat inquiring gaze.

Cao Jia was as motionless as a mountain, only holding a cup of tea and stirring the tea leaves inside with a tureen.

"In three days' time, the master went there twice... Is it because of your lord's order, or is it something else, old Wei just wants to ask for advice." Wei Hei said slowly.

Cao Jia was finally moved, and looked at Wei Ren with a bit of inquiry: "Guan Wei is going to interrogate me?"

Wei Hei shook his head and said, "Don't dare, I'm just worried that my lord is not familiar with Jiang Ning."

Cao Jia sneered and said, "What does Guanshi Wei mean, no matter where I go, I will always go over you?"

Wei Hei said he couldn't beat Cao Jia, so he didn't try to show off his tongue, but cut to the chase and said, "Grand Priest, do you have an old relationship with Hongmen?"

Cao Jia took a deep look at Wei Hei, nodded slowly, and said, "I've seen Lord Ten Thousand Buddhas before..."

Both of them were born in the rivers and lakes, and they don't behave like others.From this day on, Wei Hei has become attached to Cao Jia.

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Capital, Cao Mansion.

Although it will be thirty soon, but Cao Yong is not there, Li's spirit is short, and the atmosphere in Cao's family is also very bad.

After finishing the housework, Chuyu went to the Orchid Courtyard to accompany Mrs. Li, and listened to Mrs. Li nagging about how she was ignorant when she was a child, how to make Mrs. Gao angry and so on.

Speaking of Mrs. Gao, Mrs. Li couldn't help crying...

Chu Yu had to comfort her a little bit, and finally made Li Shi quiet down.

In order to divert her mother-in-law's attention, Chu Yu said: "I still have something to discuss with the old lady. I haven't released people for several years. Did you let them go out a year ago? The green plums and green osmanthus from the Shaoyuan, the few from our yard, They all have age."

Mrs. Li listened, and really cared, and said: "Xiuhu and Xiuyan here are also old... Is there any suitable candidate? I promised to choose a good marriage for these two girls... ..."

Chu Yu replied: "There are a few managers who have reached the age of marriage, and tomorrow the daughter-in-law will send the list to the old lady..."
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Just now, the notebook suddenly shut down automatically, scaring Xiaojiu to death. Fortunately, after restarting, the document only lost the last few hundred words, most of them were in, quack. .Entering the top seven in history this month, there will be category bonuses, and now Xiao Cao is wandering between seven and eight, begging for a monthly pass.

(End of this chapter)